The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw...Chocolate."~~William Goldman, The Princess Bride

"There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women." ~Alfred Capus

"There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after."~J.R.R. Tolkien

"Girl clothes!!"~Dorinda Durston, Always

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"Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed." ~Mignon McLaughlin

"Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate."~Mignon McLaughlin

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning." ~Aristotle Onassis

"There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."~Washington Irving

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"You knew what a dreadful girl I was when you married me." ~Leslie Benedict, Giant

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"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather."~Washington Irving

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"Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more." ~James Thurber

"I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner."

~~~SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

"And certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said; but Him they did not see.~Luke 24:24

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Lt. Doyle: "How do you do?"

Lisa: "We think Thorwald's guilty."~Rear Window

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(Still here I see...)

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~"He's too beautiful. He's too much twisted steel and sex appeal. I can't be with a guy that looks like I won him in a raffle." ~Dorinda, Always

** "You're much more handsomer' than your brother!"~?

"She stares through my shadow

She sees something more

Believes there's a light in me

She is sure

And her truth makes me stronger

Does she realize

I awake every morning

With her strength by my side"~~"In Her Eyes", Josh Groban

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~The Last of the Mohicans

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Dorinda Durston: "...so he sees this building on fire and then just outside of town is this reservoir, so what he does is..."

Ted Baker: "He takes a plane, he goes over the reservoir, fills it with water, dumps it, puts the fire out."

Dorinda Durston: "No! He missed. He hit the post office next door. Knocked it on its butt! It took him three tries. The town was awash; the groceries were burnt. It was fire, flood and famine!!! If he could have managed plague, it would have been the four horsemen of the apocalypse in one passby! I mean he was...

"They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation." ~Oliver Goldsmith

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To my Friends "H","K","M" and "S", you personify the reasons some ladies are just...well...admired.

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Who could imagine that a flower would have the potential for either such affront, beauty or mystery?~Flyer~